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Claude, can you please explain this for someone with a high school level understanding of science?

I'll break this down into simpler terms!

You might have seen viral videos or heard about what happens when you put two grapes in a microwave - they create impressive sparks and even plasma (which is like a super-hot, glowing gas, similar to what's in those plasma ball toys).

The key points of this paper are:

First, some background:
- When two grapes are placed close together in a microwave, they act like a special kind of antenna or lens for microwave energy
- This creates an incredibly intense concentration of energy between the grapes (they call this a "hotspot")

What's new in this research:
- The scientists used tiny diamonds that contain special defects called nitrogen-vacancy centers (think of these like extremely sensitive sensors)
- They placed these special diamonds between two grapes in a controlled setup
- Using these diamond sensors, they could measure how strong the magnetic field was between the grapes
- They found that the magnetic field between the grapes was twice as strong as it would be normally

Why this matters:
- Previous research only looked at the electric fields between the grapes
- This study confirms that grapes can also concentrate magnetic fields
- This could be useful for quantum computing and other advanced technologies that need precise control of magnetic fields

Think of it like this: If you put two magnifying glasses next to each other, they can concentrate light into a very bright spot. The grapes are doing something similar, but with microwaves instead of light. The scientists used special diamonds as a tool to measure just how concentrated this "microwave spot" becomes.

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I don't even try reading stuff like this on my own anymore. Maybe I'm just dumber than most, but I find Claude's explanation so much more accessible.
The AI resume - was it a real human resume which was optimized in some way for the role specification, or was it generated from scratch for the role specification?
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American children have the freedom to pursue their interests. Indian children are not afforded the same freedom.
horrors! commmoners computing in the open!

nobody complains when you're a nerd spending 9 months a year on your laptop.

HN delivering that steady stream of Sunday ragebait as always
Axiomatic Set Theory (Tom Leinster) [pdf]
I'm saying I personally want uncensored versions of LLMs, I'm not suggesting the government pass laws that force companies to do this. Your claim that I'm asking for more restrictions on speech is false.
But you can opt out completely, so I’m fine with it
AFAIK, the FPU was a stack calculator. So you pushed things on and ran calculations on the stack. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/Floating_Point
I would actually pay for such news sites.
They are all over London, although not in dollars obviously. In one street there is a 99p store, and then a couple of doors down, a 98p store.
this title is a bit mis-leading as it leaves out the important question 'how'd that happen?' which is what the entire article is about
Of course they're not solving the root of the problem. The issue of homelessness is not caused by a lack of homes.
This is the sort of vapid meta-comment that someone has to make in all of these discussions. He's obviously interested in shaping the direction of the evolution. Don't be upset if not everyone agrees with your preferred evolutionary direction.
See Nissan Motors v Nissan Computers. Companies could simply email their registrar and say someone is squatting on their domain and registrars would acquiesce. Nissan Computers set the legal meaning of squatting which pretty much ended that practice.

Before that you were much better off using a registrar with a known dispute process (verisign) or in a jurisdiction which required a legal precedent (German registrar joker.com leapfrogged into stardom during this time)

Also the process of locking domains came out of these actions
No, we are acknowledging Russian threats. Being paranoid about a threat is not the same thing as there being no threat.

Reading comprehension can help you.
Yeah, it's definitely an EA belief! If you look at the end of the article they show you a link to a response on the EA forum.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4N5BsDkcWjr5MRSQy/...

EA is one of the most evil ideologies out there.
> knowing that the world would be worse off if you decided to switch gears and become a carpenter/baker/bartender/choose your adventure.

I don't understand what you're weighing this against? A job that is literally saving lives maybe, or really leading in a field of science or technology?

Most of us don't have that though, even here on hacker news. Most of us are part of a larger effort that will progress just as well without us, our personal impact is marginal at best.

I've worked in tech for two decades for a company I deem "moral" and I feel I've had impact. But I could have fitted kitchens or made wedding cakes for that time and had just as positive an impact on the world and people I serve professionally. Hell, if I was a carpenter my work could probably outlast anything I've done in tech.
It is to distinguish between “homeless and living on the streets” from “homeless and living on friends’ floors”?
That being said flagging e-mails coming from known IP ranges of those e-mail providers seems like a pretty good idea for ATSes to detect non-human spam.
I read your comment three times and still can’t understand it
I think that’s the gold standard for finding engineering (software) and work. Get out into the world by attending meet-ups about technology and start contributing to real world open source projects or volunteer at the many projects looking for devs. It may not be a job overnight but it will keep you busy enough to not stagnate and you will also open yourself to bumping into someone who may be looking for someone at one of the meet ups.
They have homes, it's just that their home might be a tent under the on-ramp. Or a park bench. Or the city at large.

These people are your neighbors, your neighborhood is home to them, they just don't have houses.
I have not looked at kqueue, but there is no reason to believe that it would be affected by the introduction of a new event filter more than epoll is affected by the introduction of a new system call that creates a new kind of pseudo-file handles that can be passed to epoll.

The event filters must have a standard interface, so adding one more kind should not matter for kqueue more than the existence of a new kind of "file" handle matters for epoll.

The epoll API makes opaque for the user the differences between the kinds of kernel handles, but at some point inside the kernel the handles must be disambiguated and appropriate actions for each kind of handle must be performed, exactly like in kqueue various kinds of event filters must be invoked.
I think there's a more important part that we might be overlooking - China is going forward with "play to win" strategy, rather than "play to exist". In the past couple of years, you can see how in North America we've started pushing "we have to win by all means" idea. For the first time, since 80s (when Japan was going to overtake USA), we have a real competitor now. And that competitor has been able to push through policies and prove that they can overcome hardships. They have a big demographics problem, but it's not going to hurt them for the next decade+. Still a long way to go, especially if you consider random statistics like there are 200M gig workers.

Basically, USA is scared that a political ideology that's not compatible with the western standards can become the most successful one that lifts its citizens. It will never be liked by any of the governments, because locals will be able to point towards China and say "well, why do they have it better?!".
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Fairly sure you’re agreeing with what you quoted
>To this day, the reason it's accepted is because we consider it going to the common good and pooling our money to save ourselves money.

Have you ever lived in the developing world?
Of course it’s a design drawback. Otherwise it would be the design.

The drawback could be as simple as “higher cost to manufacture” or “higher risk of consumers using incorrect/third party batteries”. I’d argue the latter is a real problem, but everyone might not agree.

As for parent comment it was about an android phone. I never used or owned one so can’t comment.
Radios and such before computers.

Telegraphs and motors before that.

Machine shop stuff before that.

Blacksmithing before that

Agriculture before that, along with astronomy.
Cuba's dictatorship does the same blackmailing its immigrants in U.S to spy for them, and using immigration waves to insert hundreds of its "agents" into the country.
dang would have to weigh in but it might be accepted because it’s not that far fetched? Look at all the other allegations in the economist article we’re discussing - in the context of all that flagrant conduct asking state funded students to rat on others is relatively tame.
Possibly (and sadly) the most realistic.
It sure seems like the places with the most homeless have the most expensive housing markets.
There's a lot of beneficial things that might happen if we, as a society, worked at helping the Invisible Hand manifest. Especially if we also ceased putting so much effort into fighting it.

One of the basic tenets of capitalism is that the exchanges are all voluntary. In practice they are quite clearly not.
Anarcho-capitalists are kooks. They're so emotionally attached to capitalism as an ideology, any criticisms or suggestions of its imperfection results in cognitive dissonance. They cannot have coherent conversations outside of a cult like hero worship of personalities like Ayn Rand (who cashed her Social Security checks anyway) and Joseph Gamabos, who weren't even the true believers the anarcho-capitalist cult today have become. Naive is a very charitable term for them.

I'd say it's stupidity. In the Dietrich Bonhöffer way of thinking. Stupidity in large numbers (perhaps tribalism), is a greater danger to good than evil.
It's a side effect of the currency controls Xi put in place in 2017-18.

Around that time, the Xi admin began limiting the amount of currency outflow from a single household to around $50-100k a year. That isn't enough for international tuition in most cases in the US, or moving abroad.

As such, anyone who wanted to move or pay tuition in the US began leveraging shadow banks.
Ca. 1200, hydraulics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42482805
It's totally fine if somebody just wants the money. We are all in it for the money to some degree or another. No need to fake enthusiasm. Actually, many applicants I see want to work part time (e.g. 2/3) and just want something to pay the bills and be able to pursue their hobbies.

But I'd like to know, why did you send your application to our company and not one in another industry?

I work for a university data center. Many of my colleagues have a scientific background. If not in academia, they could do coding, R&D, devops, science communication, product management, finance or many other things. They are 'lateral entrants' in any profession.

If people can't answer "why did you apply here specifically", it means one of two things: They don't have a clue what their job would be, and they and we are likely to be dissappointed when they show up. Or: they sent their application to everybody indiscriminately. That signals that they likely aren't a good match for the skills needed, and also that they have a high rejection rate.
Unless your app is completely stateless, you will need some level of communication across AZs.

And you often want cross-zone routing on your load balancers so that if you lose all the instances in one AZ traffic will still get routed to healthy instances.
>so did you if you think it was about Gaza and Ukraine ;-)

I fell for reality and facts, not propaganda.

>GOP loves war in Ukraine more than a fat kid loves cake

Not the current GOP, maybe prior ones, like the GOP of Dick Cheney, who supported... checks notes, Kamala and the current pro-war party.
I'm not trolling and correct, I've never had to use that argument. Are you British or something? In the US and most western countries, pants simply means some kind of full leg covering, and generally that's going to be jeans, chinos, or trousers/slacks. All are pants.

A companies dress code will generally exclude jeans if they are not acceptable.

I haven't redefined anything.
Sneaky grapes hurling sparks at each other if you put them in a microwave and switch it on.
I am utterly amazed by people who can do stuff like this.
I wish it were so! That was true until they turned this feature on by default.
I can get behind the argument that MSM uses it this on every election cycle, but to deny that the US workers (both blue and white collar) are getting negatively affected by this is putting on a blindfold.

not arguing this at all, I believe that H1B program is absolutely horrible for US workers and should be fully scraped or re-written to a law that makes sense. at present it hurts US employees and creates modern-day white collar slavery than only benefits the landlords and no one else
Yes it is. I was on mobile definitely didn’t scroll far enough for the giant “Why Rust” where the TFA addresses my needless snark head on.

> It’s tempting to try to sweep this under the rug because it feels gauche to say, but it’s actually important for a number of reasons.

> For one, fish is a hobby project, and that means we want it to be fun for us.
So they want to make it possible to know who controls what? How is this a bad idea?
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The currency controls only began being enforced by Xi's admin in 2017-18, and it's just another tool of his to further entrench control.

Ironic given that his daughter attended Harvard, which is very pricy on a 2000s-era party salary.
> I used Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc in the era before Google - and it was worse.

I guess you were only talking about the search engine, then.

The technology was ready, PageRank was inspired by other work, and Google came to a good degree out of government grants.

And by the way, the search engine I was using when Google came out (I think it was Northern Light, but I might be mistaken) was not significantly worse; Altavista and Yahoo were definitely among the worst engines by then

> If you're suggesting that some other company besides Google would have worked out the same algorithms and business plan, then this seems incoherent.

Why incoherent?

Had another company done exactly the same but with a different name, yeah, not much would have changed...

But there was no need for things to go this way, for the products you love to emerge; they just, probably, would have been made by several companies, rather than all by one.

But actually, there have always been alternatives to Google's products, it was just your choice to not use them; you could probably have gotten a similar value without ever touching a Google product.
What was the AI prompt that generated that? LotR but programming?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tiny-mobile-h...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dimer

I suspect the grapes take up the role of the molecules here.
This. People sit on houses like lecherous dragons instead of funding risky startups which can take over the world. There are no stars in Canada. Growing the pie is frowned upon. That "mediocrity" thinking falls all the way down to the local governance level and housing.
> Or maybe it is price discrimination.

It very much is, because scaling bandwidth between phyical datacenters which are not located next to each other is very expensive. So pricing it means that people don't use it as much as if it was free.
It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
I know some chinese people very well and even they have been warning about spies on campus for years.

I don’t buy the xenophobia argument.
The first day I moved to Germany I immediately got fined €300 for streaming 10 seconds of a film using Popcorn Time.

I just couldn't believe it. I'd had decades of piracy through Virgin Media, no VPN in the UK and it just didn't occur to me that I couldn't do that elsewhere.
Sounds like my artisinal Certificate Authority, all signatures are hand multiplied by human computers!
Cool! Skip to 2m18s in the video if you're just curious about what the AI summarization looks like, and how it handles comment threading. Any plans for a firefox version?
I do not understand why SKIF's aren't being used in any kind of "lawsuit" around LLM training data.

We know that there are random undetected "landmines" buried in LLM training data. All the evidence I need is that stupid discord airforce officer doing 20 years in jail for leaking classified docs or the many stories of War-Thunder forums having classified info get leaked just so nerds can win an argument online.

I'm old man (or rather, langley's favorite useful idiot) yelling at cloud about this.
If big models require big hardware how come there are so many free LLMs? How much compute is one ChatGPT interaction with the default model? Is it a massive loss leader for OpenAI?
Is that why people overwhelmingly voted for change in 2024, ironically to bring back the “dictator”?
Popular mandate, all of swing states, majority of governorships, house and the senate - seems as decisive a democratic choice as it can get!
Precisely. As of such, those with increased capacity for access will deprive access to others. No balance of care forms. Your recommended ethic is what Kant wished to address with his categorical imperative.

Of course this is a unifaceted way of posing a problem: it's a model, given we're dealing with philosophical ideas. I should hope that I needn't provide examples for the model, given the state of the world at present won't let you swing a cat without hitting one.
Recently, from Derek Lowe, on this project: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/anarchist-drugs-ag...

"It's like saying that you're going to make your own aluminum foil."
'Never attribute to ethics that which can be explained by incentives' - Hanlon's Hammer

'Show me an organization's stupidity and I'll show you their malice' - Munger's Psychology of Human Misquotations
> Allow this device to privately match places in your
photos with a global index maintained by Apple so
you can search by almost any landmark or point of
interest.

Couldn't they just make a k/v database that has coordinates of landmarks and then just pass the lat/long from the picture's EXIF in an API call for lookup in said DB when the user wants to make use of this feature? Isn't this part of why we have geotagging?
You'd be surprised: Next time a recruiter from some big tech corp sends you an e-mail try explaining why you don't want to join them.
So what is the correct term for "charge an extremely high markup for a feature that some, but not all, of your customers need"?
“It looks into the camera and consents, or it gets the whip again”

Not as easy as recording a vid.
One ethical thing that some people on HN do, and more should: criticize big companies when they do something unethical, even if you'd want to work for them.

Yes, presumably, you will get on some company-wide hiring denylists. (Not because you're prominent, but because there will be routine LLM-powered "corporate fit" checks, against massive corpora and streams of ongoing surveillance capitalism monitoring of most things being said.)

Some things need to be said. And people need to not just hear it once, and forget it, but to hear it from many people, on an ongoing basis. So not saying it is being complicit.
I personally use emacs, but I acknowledge the scientifically proven superiority of vi. The superiority of vi was demonstrated -- indisputably, and using the strongest of possible methodologies -- in 1998. Unless something has changed significantly since then, I cannot argue, in good faith, that I use a superior editor.
But are they underfunded?
Even with consent I don't see any positive coming out of it: for women it's unrealisting expectations of the money they are getting in exchange for potentially leaving an online trace for their whole life that they don't consent to and probably don't even know of in advance.

For men it's unrealistic expectations of getting a (short or long but real) relationship with a woman that in reality looks down on them and don't even view them as real men.

It should be illegal as it's destroying society, but unfortunately it isn't.
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Yes, we could tax higher incomes until we've reached that goal.
I made an art installation on this question once: https://bildsignal.de/p_derweil

"derweil is an interactive video installation correlating time, space and big data to provide tailor-made instructions on how to get lost.
Materials: Google Directions and Streetview APIs, JavaScript, NW.js, cables.gl, Involt, Arduino IDE, computers, thermal paper, plastic, metals, wood."

(I doubt I could still run this today, though. I used some kind of 'hack' to bypass Google Streetview API limitations and I'm pretty sure they fixed this ages ago… ;D)
Agreed, but on the surface of it one might think that given the more varied ways that women might dress, they need more rather than less written rules for women vs men to control the way they actually do dress (at FIDE events).

So, the logical conclusion is perhaps, no surprise, that FIDE don't really want to enforce a strict dress code, but rather want to promote the sport, and that translates differently into dress codes (or lack of them) for men vs women...
Price gouging?
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California has the privilege that most of it doesn't get snowfall, and thus living in a tent in winter is closer to uncomfortable than life threatening. Toronto has no such luxury. Given the choice between living in a shoebox and being dead, some will prefer the shoebox.

Plus, there have been some attempts at tiny home community in LA and SF that are pretty similar.

LA: https://hopethemission.org/our-programs/tiny-homes-villages/

SF:
https://dignitymoves.org/
Hi HN, I'm building a CI system that treats build configuration as a proper programming problem. The core idea is replacing YAML with a LISP-inspired DSL that makes complex workflows manageable and predictable.

Key features:

- LISP-based configuration language

- Automatic dependency analysis and caching

- Progressive complexity from simple to advanced use cases

The project is in early development, and I'm looking for feedback from potential early adopters. Would love to hear your thoughts on the approach and what pain points you'd most want addressed.
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Tenders also tend to have specific requirements and "don't sabotage the trains" seems like it would be a useful one
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